Apple got granted on Friday, 38 design patents ranging from iPhone to MacBook Air to the Shanghai’s Apple Store. With Apple’s gadgets and computers being constantly copied by competitors mainly based in Asia, the Cupertino-based company it’s constantly making sure their designs are patented in China. Patently Apple revealed that this last round of design [...]
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Apple got granted 38 design patents in China, including iPhone’s UI
iDevices with privacy glasses . . . now you see It, now they don’t!
August 30, 2011
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The US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple on August 25, 2011, revealing a novel approach for insuring privacy for future iDevice users: glasses! It’s probably happened to many of us: You’re sitting at a Starbucks sipping your coffee while reading something on your iPhone, iPad, or some other device. Suddenly [...]
Asus soon launching MacBook Air copycat UX21: will Apple stop them?
August 30, 2011
Soon the ultra-thin Apple‘s MacBook Air may have to face some stiff competition with the new Ultrabooks from Asus, or maybe not. Due any day from now, Asustek, the maker of Asus computers, will reportedly launch half a dozen of the new super-thin and powerful personal computers, which Intel, the promoter behind the Ultrabooks, hopes [...]
Apple may bring MacBook and iMac with integrated cellular antennas
August 17, 2011
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Apple won a very interesting key patent on Tuesday. The US Patent and Trademark Office granted the Cupertino firm a patent that sees the integration of cellular antennas under the keys of both MacBooks and wireless keyboards like that used for the iMac. Have you ever thought of an iMac with 3G capacities? Isn’t an [...]
Apple new patent for clip-based antenna for ‘small devices’
August 14, 2011
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On Friday, three new Apple patents surfaced at the US Patent & Trademark Office. We’ve already covered the one patent related with the oleophobic coating for iPhone and iPad, and this other one I reckon could see some future use. A new antenna patent suggests that Apple could be looking at a clip, similar to [...]
Next-generation iPhone, iPod and iPad will house a projector?
August 12, 2011
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An Apple patent was discovered this afternoon, which reveals hints that the future iOS devices may add an integrated projector on the iPhone, iPod and iPad. The new patent application was published by the US Patent and Trademark office on Thursday and you can see from the drawing how Apple is looking to get into [...]
Apple’s new patents could be a threat for Android
August 10, 2011
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Apple was granted on Tuesday, from the US Patent and Trademark Office. 21 patents and one of them could prove VERY problematic for Android. The Cupertino-based communication giant has been rewarded with the patent of ‘integrated touchscreen’, meaning they now own the innovation. Pretty much every smartphone these days comes with a touchscreen. This particular [...]
September 12, 2011
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